Report of the Board of Shell Fish Commissioners 63 



PRICE OF OYSTERS. 



ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY. 



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The price paid to oystermen for oysters, being governed by 

 supply and demand, varies from month to month and from 

 season to season. 



From information gathered from oystermen, the Commission 

 adopted sixty cents per bushel as a fair average price received 

 by tongmen in Anne Arundel County during recent years. 



SOMERSET COUNTY. 



In Somerset County, however, the average price received by 

 oystermen for oysters is much higher than the above, as the 

 ''barrel" stock from Pocomoke and Tangier sounds often brings 

 as much as $1.25 per bushel. The price fixed by the Commis- 

 sion as the basis for determining the number of oysters which 

 represents the minimum livelihood of oystermen in Somerset 

 County is $1.00 per bushel. 



QUANTITY OF OYSTERS. 



TONGING GROUNDS. 



With the foregoing data in hand it was decided by the Com- 

 mission that all grounds located within areas designated for 

 tonging operations in Anne Arundel County which will yield 

 402 bushels of oysters to tongmen per seas-on, of 100 days of 

 eight hours each, or a quantity of oysters proportional to this 

 per day, are natural oyster bars, and all grounds located in the 

 tonging districts in Somerset County are natural oyster bars 

 which will yield 278 bushels of oysters to a tongman per sea- 

 son, or 2.78 bushels of oysters per day. The minimum quan- 

 tity of oysters which must be present per square yard and per 



